George W. Malone

George Wilson Malone (7 August 1890-19 May 1961) was a US Senator from Nevada from 3 January 1947 to 3 January 1959, succeeding Edward P. Carville and preceding Howard Cannon.

Biography
George Wilson Malone was born in Fredonia, Kansas in 1890, and he moved to Reno, Nevada as a young man and worked as a hydraulic engineer. He served as a US Army artilleryman and intelligence officer during World War I, and he unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 1934 as a Republican. He was defeated again by Pat McCarran in 1944, but he won the 1946 election with 55% of the vote and served from 1947 to 1959. He died in 1961.